MUHAMMAD IQBAL NASEEM vs PROVINCE OF SINDH art — 2023 PLC(CS) 700 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH

Case information

Citation: 2023 PLC(CS) 700 KARACHI-HIGH-COURT-SINDH
Court: Sindh High Court
Year: 2023
Reporter: PLC
Parties: MUHAMMAD IQBAL NASEEM vs PROVINCE OF SINDH art
Subject matter: Constitutional
Provisions referred to: S. 2

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Judgment text as reported

MUHAMMAD IQBAL NASEEM VS PROVINCE OF SINDH art.199---Sindh Shaheed Recognition and Compensation act (XVI of 2014), S.2(f)---Constitutional petition---Declaration of person as shaheed---Scope---Petitioner's son during his service as a police constable was hit by an unknown driver of a vehicle resulting in his death---Petitioner sought direction to the department to sanction/grant shaheed compensation, other allowances and benefits to the petitioner as admissible under the law as his son had embraced shahadat during service---Validity---Prima facie the case of petitioner's son did not fall within the ambit of Cl. (f) of S. 2 of Sindh Shaheed Recognition and Compensation act, 2014, which provided the definition of shaheed---Incident of accident was being demonstrated as an act of terrorism---If it was disclosed as an accident, it could not be stretched down as an act of terrorism and if it was terrorism it could not be termed as an accident---No element of terrorism was found to treat the petitioner as shaheed---Committee had rightly rejected the claim of petitioner---Constitutional petition was dismissed.

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